Continuing the discussion from The purpose of the 2 Discourse API systems : [image] The purpose of the 2 Discourse API systems user approves the application and then gets an dedicated API key generated. What if we want to make a request for a publicly available info on the Discourse instance i…

Thank you @pfaffman ! This solves the issue. I was adding the API key headers and it’s what caused the errors to show up, but after removing the API keys and doing a regular fetch request it worked. :+1::+1:

Using JavaScript fetch to get publicly available page from Discourse into an external site (Discourse API)

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) April 9, 2023, 2:36am 2

If you want data that is available without logging in, your don’t need to use an API key.

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